Author: OurCrowd

Exploring new opportunities with Venture Partner Michael Ben-Nun

Exploring new opportunities with Venture Partner Michael Ben-Nun

Oct 19, 2016 |

As this past month Israel marked a new year, we too are celebrating a new opportunity at OurCrowd. We’re excited to welcome a new member to the OurCrowd team — Michael Ben-Nun, who joins us as a Venture Partner! Michael brings 35 years of experience providing technical, strategic, and operational leadership in the Israeli and US high-tech sectors, including various managerial positions. This vast experience will allow Michael to identify exciting startups for OurCrowd to invest in and help them become successful companies. Being an innovation and entrepreneur enthusiast, I am thrilled to join the OurCrowd team. I am excited to help expand the tech ecosystem with more talent, help the next wave of startups scale, and continue to democratize access to early stage investments.” ~ Michael Ben-Nun Michael began his career as a developer of the first 32-bit processor at National Semiconductors. He was also a distinguished engineer at DEC, managing development groups of various VLSI devices in the area of storage and networking. After several key positions with multi-national high-tech corporations, Michael joined P-cube, the leader of service control platform for Internet service providers,...

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[Influitive in PR Newswire] Influitive Appoints Sales Growth Evangelist David Priemer As Vice President of Sales

Oct 17, 2016 |

Today Influitive, the advocate marketing experts, announced the addition of David Priemer as Vice President of Sales to scale and systematize the company’s sales operations for predictable, rapid revenue growth. David, a scientist turned four-time tech entrepreneur, joins Influitive from Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and resident growth evangelist as Principal of Salesforce’s Leadership Academy. Previously, he was a founding member and Vice President of Sales at Rypple (acquired by Salesforce). Read more on PR Newswire...

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[Splacer in Forbes] A Virtual Marketplace For Physical Space: How Splacer Is Changing How Events Happen

Oct 17, 2016 | ,

Virtual world or the physical one? Which is better? One argument is that there’s nothing quite so powerful as the global community’s ability to connect virtually. The other point of view is that no online connection can compare to the meaningful, tactile experience of gathering with others in a shared physical space. In the world of Splacer, a new online marketplace for event spaces, they’re both right. Read more on Forbes...

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[CrediFi in Bloomberg] New York Property Moguls Get Creative as Big Banks Curb Lending

Oct 11, 2016 | ,

It’s tougher out there for New York City’s commercial real estate developers seeking cash for their latest projects. Big banks are pulling back and those filling the gap are demanding tighter terms, according to Ely Razin, chief executive of CrediFi Content Co., a property-focused data provider that published its quarterly rankings of the largest commercial real estate lenders in New York on Tuesday. Deutsche Bank AG slipped from first to second place in the three months through June. Read more on Bloomberg...

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[Zebra in Business Insider] An Israeli startup says it has taught an algorithm how to detect breast cancer

Oct 11, 2016 | ,

Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli digital healthcare startup, claims to have developed an algorithm that has the potential to improve breast cancer detection. Founded in 2014 and backed by the likes of Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff with $20 million (£16 million), the Tel Aviv-based company says it has taught an algorithm to identify early signs of breast cancer with the help of thousands of previous mammograms. Read more on Business Insider...

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